I'm so sorry, Rocket. Her warning didn't reach me before the work day started.

Good luck avoiding Wham and Mariah Carey for the next month and a half!

I dunno, man...any opportunity I might have to deny Bezos a take would automatically make the book worth more to me. Doubly so given that I live...not stateside.

"It could have been--it didn't have to be obscene.... It could have been--a bird out of season, dropping bright-feathered on my shoulder.... I was prepared. But it's this, is it? No enigma, no dignity, nothing classical, portentous, only this--a comic pornographer and a rabble of prostitutes...."

Grateful for this.
In SK, it's a bit of a losing battle -- they wired in hard re: the internet and are doing much the same with AI: I expect shockwaves when the smoke and mirrors finally get exposed as, well, smoke and mirrors -- but I do at least caution my students to *check* what AI offers them.

I think those are for Rocket. You know, to start pretending it's the holidays.

The word "will" here speaks of an incredible amount of optimism, which I admire, but find difficult to share.

Or maybe just a sharp stick and some dirt like we used back in the pee-wee football league days. Can't count on trees too much, either. And if they come for our dirt? I dunno what.

Bluesky = methadone? Another habit to kick but this one should be easier.

Nevermind, we'll always have Goog...Micro...Subs...pen and paper?

It's Chuseok in South Korea so why not now? I mean, it's practically Halloween anyway, and as anybody who laid money down on humans being a rational species knows, the news is awful enough, regularly enough, to provide justification for whatever holiday schedule best fits your needs...

Strongly suspect the dictators are the ones laughing the loudest.

Wow.
I wonder if AI has any insights into pain that is not physical in nature.

On second thought, no I fucking don't.